West Orange

West Orange is a suburban township in Essex County, New Jersey. Located at the peak of the Watchung Mountains, and it was purchased by English settlers in 1664 in the "Elizabethtown Purchase". After 1678, English settlers began to settle in the area, and it was known as part of the "Newark Mountains". The area was populated with farms and mills during the American Revolutionary War, and it was a part of Newark until 27 November 1806, when it became a part of Orange. After Orange became a town in 1860, it began to fragment; West Orange was incorporated as a township on 10 April 1863 and then as a town in 28 February 1900. After World War II, there was a real estate development boom in West Orange, and white flight caused by the 1967 Newark riots and the Civil Rights movement led to increased white migration to West Orange. By the 1990s, it grew to have a diverse international community. In 2016, West Orange had a population of 47,249 people.